Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

POPI1601 C. Popillius (17) C. f. Laenas

Relationships

son of
? C. Popillius (18) P. f. P. n. Laenas (cos. 172) (Zmeskal 2009)
brother of
? P. Popillius (28, cf. 7, 22) C. f. P. n. Laenas (cos. 132) (DPRR Team)

Career

  • Praetor 133 urbanus, Rome (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Popillius is otherwise unknown, though he was probably a brother of P. Popillius C. f., who was Consul in 132. The decree is dated between the Ides of Sextilis and the Ides of December in some year near the time of the acquisition of the province of Asia, and is usually assigned to 133 because no account is taken of the revolt of Aristonicus and the acts of the kings are validated in their entirety. Magie (Roman Rule in Asia Minor 2. 1033, note 1) favors a date when the revolt was crushed and instructions could perhaps more properly be given to future governors than to Legates concerned with the organization of the province, and suggests 129, when we also know that both Consuls were absent from Rome and the Praetor Urbanus would preside over the Senate. If this is correct, the decree must be dated before the first of October when the Consul Sempronius celebrated a triumph. We cannot however be sure what commission may have taken Scaevola from Rome in late 133 while his colleague was in Sicily, and an instruction of this kind for all future governors could reasonably form part of the original basis for the organization of the province when the Senate returned to the question after the death of Tiberius Gracchus. Furthermore, the relationship of the date of the decree to that of the Senatus Consultum de Agro Pergameno tends to favor the earlier dating. (Broughton MRR I)
    • Presided over a meeting of the Senate when it decreed instructions for future governors of Asia to maintain the acts of Attalus III and the earlier kings (OGIS 435- IGRP 4.301).{493} (Broughton MRR I)

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